Deuteronomy 9:25   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

I lay prostrate before the Lord those forty days and forty nights because the Lord had said he would destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:26   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

I prayed to the Lord and said, "Sovereign Lord, do not destroy your people, your own inheritance that you redeemed by your great power and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Deuteronomy 9:27   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin.

Deuteronomy 9:28   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

Otherwise, the country from which you brought us will say, 'Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land he had promised them, and because he hated them, he brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.'

Deuteronomy 9:29   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

But they are your people, your inheritance that you brought out by your great power and your outstretched arm."

Deuteronomy 10:2   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the ark."

Deuteronomy 10:4   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

The Lord wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandments he had proclaimed to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly. And the Lord gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 10:9   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

That is why the Levites have no share or inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the Lord is their inheritance, as the Lord your God told them.)

Deuteronomy 10:10   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

Now I had stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, as I did the first time, and the Lord listened to me at this time also. It was not his will to destroy you.

Deuteronomy 10:12   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deuteronomy 10:13   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

and to observe the Lord's commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?

Deuteronomy 10:14   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it.

Deuteronomy 10:15   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

Yet the Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations-as it is today.

Deuteronomy 10:16   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer.

Deuteronomy 10:17   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes.

Deuteronomy 10:18   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.

Deuteronomy 10:19   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.

Deuteronomy 10:20   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

Fear the Lord your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name.

Deuteronomy 10:21   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

He is the one you praise; he is your God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes.

Deuteronomy 10:22   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy 11:1   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

Love the Lord your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always.

Deuteronomy 11:2   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the Lord your God: his majesty, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm;

Deuteronomy 11:4   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

what he did to the Egyptian army, to its horses and chariots, how he overwhelmed them with the waters of the Red Sea as they were pursuing you, and how the Lord brought lasting ruin on them.

Deuteronomy 11:5   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

It was not your children who saw what he did for you in the wilderness until you arrived at this place,